Shaurya Chakra for Lance Naik Sandeep Singh

TNN | Updated: Aug 15, 2019, 10:58 IST

CHANDIGARH: Lance Naik Sandeep Singh of 4th battalion of parachute regiment (Special Forces) will be awarded Shaurya Chakra posthumous on Independence Day. Hailing from Kotla Khurd village in Gurdaspur, he was part of the 2016 surgical strike and was killed in a counter-infiltration operation on September 22, 2018 in Kupwara’s Tangdhar sector along LoC. He was hit in the head by bullets, but killed two infiltrators. The Army will get 107 gallantry awards.